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still looking at Debian over 26.04
will be disappointing because Xubuntu really is just that little bit nicer than stock Xfce, but oh well
The main issue I have had with Debian+XFCE is that a high DPI display will not display the login dialog at the same DPI settings as the desktop environment, which is pretty annoying. Everything else so far has just kind of worked.
As compared to Xubuntu?
I believe Xfce is still on X11 and Wayland is still "experimental" this cycle.
I considered Alpine, but I got actual work to do and I already have enough lib issues with OpenShot. (Even in an AppImage, which should be safe from that shit. Flatpak behaves tho.)
more as someone who has recently installed Debian onto a laptop last month. Honestly last time I used Xubuntu was on a candy G4 tower around 2007.
i'm still remarkably happy with fedora's kde on my laptop, but i'm also very content with the current state of wayland (with obvious caveats about use cases and personal idiosyncrasies).
i'm running xfce on a remote ubuntu box at work though, using rdp for connections, and it's, well, fine. lacks some things i like in full DEs, but it's perfectly adequate for the job.
(both beat fucking windows 11 when it comes to being usable for me)